Rivers run through our history and folklore, and link us as a people.... We are a nation rich in rivers.

For 25 or 30 years I never had an assignment. These were all stories I wanted to do myself. So they were always about somebody I like, 'cause if I didn't like him, I just didn't do the story. And to have somebody else paying the bills for this tourism, to every corner of every stage, over and over again? Why, who wouldn't want a job like that?

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

I think the feature reporter often walks a very thin line between a truly human story and one that slops over into mushiness or sentimentality.

I wasn't a very discriminating reader. I read just about everything that came along.